Low usefulness of reporting tonsillar PCR Ct-values in pharyngeal infections with Fusobacterium necrophorum.

Autor: Nygren D; Division of Infection Medicine, Department for Clinical Sciences Lund, Lund University, Lund, Sweden; Department of Infectious Diseases, Skåne University Hospital, Lund, Malmö, Sweden. Electronic address: david.nygren@med.lu.se., Wasserstrom L; Clinical Microbiology Laboratory, Infection Control and Prevention, Laboratory Medicine, Lund, Sweden; Clinical Microbiology, Department of Translational Medicine, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden., Torisson G; Department of Infectious Diseases, Skåne University Hospital, Lund, Malmö, Sweden; Clinical Infection Medicine, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden., Holm K; Division of Infection Medicine, Department for Clinical Sciences Lund, Lund University, Lund, Sweden; Department of Infectious Diseases, Skåne University Hospital, Lund, Malmö, Sweden.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Anaerobe [Anaerobe] 2024 Apr; Vol. 86, pp. 102831. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Feb 16.
DOI: 10.1016/j.anaerobe.2024.102831
Abstrakt: Tonsillar Fusobacterium necrophorum PCR Ct-values were higher in participants with asymptomatic tonsillar carriage than patients with pharyngeal infections. However, Ct-values were not associated with severity of disease or predictive of development of complications and hence lacked clinical usefulness. The reporting of F. necrophorum Ct-values in clinical samples is not recommended.
Competing Interests: Declaration of competing interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.
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Databáze: MEDLINE
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